Frank Chodorov Quotes

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

Certainly it is not a democracy.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

The United States is a very difficult country to govern.

The people who own the country are now going to get to run it.

Rather than living in a democracy, we are living in a benevolent oligarchy.

In no form of government is there an absolute identity of interest between the people and their rulers

Politics is fate.

Three times before, in the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1920s, oligarchs took over the American government and threatened to destroy democracy. In each case, they overreached, and regular folks took back their government.

Government is not a game show, though at times it is amusing and entertaining to watch.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Democracy is a good client.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

There never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.